NOTES. 125 



Falco soloensis, Lath. Gen. Hist., I., p. 209, 1821. 



Dajdalion soloensis, Horsf., Tr. Liiiu. Soc, XIII., 137_, 1822., 

 &c-, &c. 



Thus clearly leading an unsuspecting- reader to the inference 

 that the specific name soloensis was Latham's and not Horsfield's! 



But in the first place as Count Salvadori has pointed out' 

 ci Ucelli di Borneo, p. 94," Mr. Sharpe is wrong in assigning 

 1822 for the publication of Horsfield's paper in the Linn. Trans'. 

 It was read at the Society on the 12th April 18.20, and must 

 have been published at least as early as August 1821. 



I say this because, Latham wrote the preface of the 1st Vol. 

 of his General Hist, when issuing it, at Winchester in Septem- 

 ber 1821, yet about the middle of this volume he introduces 

 the Soolo Falcon, quoting as a reference " Falco soloensis 

 Linn Trans., XIII.. 137, Horsfield," thus showing that before 

 September, he at Winchester (and H.M. mails went somewhat 

 slowly in those days), had had the use of a printed copy of 

 Horsfield's paper— and indeed other entries in this same Volume 

 prove the same fact. 



Clearly too one has no right to quote the reference first criven 

 by Mi". Sharpe. If given at all, it must stand. 



Falco Soloensis, Horsf. apud Lath., Gen. Hist., I., 209. 



And must follow and not precede the reference to the Lin. 

 Trans, which were, as above shown, published before the issue of 

 Latham's first volume, 



Mr. Sharpe, in his Catalogue (I., 267), gives Spkaetus orien- 

 lalis, Teram. and Schleg., Faun. Jap. Av., pi. 3, as a synonyme 

 of 8. nipalensis, Hodgs. No doubt the figure given does greatly 

 resemble one stage of the young of that species, but at that 

 stage, nipalensis has a most conspicuous crest, and ao-ain the 

 feathering does not descend far enough on to the middle toe for 

 nipalensis, and lastly we know that the particular specimen 

 figured and described came from Japan, to which nipalensis 

 does not, so far as is at present known, extend. 



Others of the nearly allied Spizaeti exhibit a very similar 

 plumage, at one stage. 



It is all very well for Prof. Schlegel, who lumps cirrhotics, 

 linnaetus, nijjalensis, lanceolatns, &c, to identify his orientalis, 

 with nipalensis, but quite impossible for ornithologists who with 

 Mr. Sharpe, recognize all these as distinct to do the same. 



At page 459, Vol. II., I stated that the 2nd part of my 

 "Rough Notes" were published in February 1870. This is a 



